Al-Maʿarri Quotes
They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the (religious) traditions or interpreted them!
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but it all boils down to the work. I'm a work-a-holic, which is why I think that I've been successful. If you tell me no, I'll work even harder!
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I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.
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I've been sent lots of lovely gifts - everything from candy and peanut butter to hand-made quilts, pictures, and clothing. I was once sent a crate of avocados. Fortunately, I love them.
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I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.
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What came out of 'Ocean's Twelve' is actually great because you do one 'Ocean's Twelve,' and you're more known around the world than if you did 20 years in the French cinema industry.
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I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.
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The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.
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When you laugh at something, you don’t fear it anymore.
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They aren't interested in the fact that whenever they kick up dirt, the dirt rubs off on every one of us.
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The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.
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Would it not be as well to liberate and make soldiers at once of the blacks themselves, as to make them instruments for enlisting white soldiers? It would certainly be more consonant to the principles of liberty which ought never to be lost sight of in a contest for liberty...
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More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.
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I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.
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Marriage is just a relationship to me. In my experience, when you've been in a relationship for as long as I've been in one, there's no real difference. It's just a piece of paper that validates what was already real.
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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
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I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.
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It’s a funny thing, when you talk to God, you’re religious, but when he talks to you, you’re a psychopath.
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One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.
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They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the (religious) traditions or interpreted them!
